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INTRODUCTION. ALMOST FORGOTTEN TERMS AND NOTIONS

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ANALYTICAL DESCRIPTION OF THE SPORTS SWIMMING TECHNIQUE

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INTRODUCTION. ALMOST FORGOTTEN TERMS AND NOTIONS

DOPING

 

            Represents the usage of some active substances or of some manipulations (physical, chemical) in order to artificially raise the sports outcome by making superior performances visibly harming the organism health.

            Into the public opinion memory there are the consecutive deaths caused by the usage of doping, of the Danish cycler E. Jensen at 1960 Rome Olympic Games, of another cycler T. Simpson in 1967 and of the boxer J.Elze in 1968, events that leaded to the firm condemnation of these practices by IOC and MOC (Medical Olympic Commission). In the 70s these organizations elaborated a list of doping substances and doping tests which can reveal the usage of doping even 6 months earlier, have been developed. Bu the examples can follow till nowadays

            Most of the substances used by the swimmers are the anabolic substances, which, especially for girls have great effects for the growth of the performance.

            If you look carefully you can see that an athlete who used doping has a specific look: the features of his faces look more like a man, the voice is getting thicken (those are easier to remark) but the series continue; the consequences of doping usage are not very well known, years later the athletes become biologically older, but its expected that the ones who used doping will quickly get older and will be somehow fragile, fact that may make acute banal crises become chronic illnesses.

            Doping can sometimes be tolerated in a wrong way because of some mercantile implication for which the Olympic Committees don’t respect firm and adequate laws which ban these practices (Anti-doping World Code, Anti-doping FINA Rules, etc.)

            We consider that is better to “know everything” about doping instead of letting it in the hands of some amateurs who can be twice harmed (as a practice, as a user of a special and harmful  pharmacological substances).

            Finally we can say that doping is a “necessary” bad thing – human knowing will be enriched by this and maybe, in this way, by education, we may give up, stop this immoral and dangerous plague.

 

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